Wednesday, October 1, 2008

When I saw the legendary No Fixed Address play a couple of
Months ago at the Dreaming festival I picked up this.
A limited edition Cd copy, with extra tracks of the classic
Ep "From My Eyes." I've had a request for this so here
it is. This expanded version is now more like an album.
I doubt this will be commercially available and this copy
appears to be a home made job, with photocopied cover.
All the same it is a classic and is the place from which
all contemporary Australian indigenous music begins.
Check out my earlier posts on this band in the archives
if you missed them and my post on the Dreaming festival.

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comments:

tarago
said...

Such a landmark record. Nice to be able to replace my worn vinyl mini-lp with click-free digital. And the bonus tracks are ... a bonus, Bob. Specially Greenhouse Holiday which I haven't heard in years. Used to get quite a bit of airplay on Adelaide's community radio station 5-MMM,cheerstarago

You are a god sir!No sooner does my mate Pete ask me about a band he got friendly with, when he spent a year in Australia, than I find them on your blog. He's gonna be psyched. He had no idea they ever recorded anything. LOL

Allo' BobI dig your page and was thrilled o see No Fixed Address my older brother had some of their stuff years ago.I've been trying to track down some material but its prettyhard to come by.Do you know how I would obtain a copy of the 2008 ltd edt cd?I rang David Briggs the old producer but he couldn't help he said try Mushroom records so I'm now trying to get in touch with Bart.Are you able to burn me a cd-r copy? I will send you the $ fpr postage etc...

I grew up in a gub household under a complete denial of my paternal roots. Thankfully, my mother's boyfriend had an interset in local/alt music & he aquired a No Fixed EP. Apart from the occasional chat w/ a cupla murris @ school in classes above mine, No Fixed was my only culture fix. The EP came with an indigi-flag poster which went up on the wall alongside a nazi flag. I sought a No Fixed album for years & eventually scored the EP. After much research I realized the elusive album was the EP & side 1 of "Wrong Side" s/t compiled onto a tape. No sooner had I accepted the non-existence of the album, than I discovered that there had been an album, recently distrubuted at a No Fixed gig that I missed & unavailable elsewhere. Till I discovered your blog & my search is over. Thanks. Co-incidentally Bart came on ZZZ for an interview just as I was downloading it. Promised more No Fixed gigs for the future... dedli!

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Coming to you from Brisbanethe home of the striped sunlightsound, this is a my little placein cyberspace to share themusic of Australiawhich may have passed you by.Mostly rare and out of printalbums from artists that nevermade it into the mainstreamand my recollections concerningthem. If you like somethingplease leave a message in thecomments, if you don't,maybe you'd rather not seeyour music here, or maybe myrecollections are wrong,please leave a message too.If you find any links no longer workplease let me know and I'll fix itI'm on myspace you can find me at myspace.com/stripedsunlightsoundand if you preferfacebook.com/people/Bob